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Originally Posted by supafamous
Are we starting up a weight gain thread yet? Thanksgiving just passed, we got Halloween next and then we're at Xmas.
I'm pretty much been stuck around 172-173lb since July - I just don't have the discipline to manage a calorie deficit properly. OTOH, my gym work is paying off - when I run into people I haven't seen in a few months and keep getting the "Have you been working out? You look great." comments - I wished I had taken photos of when I started as it can be hard to see the progress sometimes (I did have some new headshots done recently and I do look appreciably thinner than a year ago).
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Here's how I'm seeing it: take it week by week during the fall/winter/holiday months. Even a few days at a time if that's all you can manage.
Allow yourself to enjoy the holidays and the good food. If you can manage to squeeze in 3-7 days of a controlled deficit, great! That's still better than zero control altogether. It's kind of like how those food challenge youtubers stay fit/relatively skinny: deficit 6 days of the week, food challenge once per week.
Your body can only absorb so much in one day of pigging out, the rest just goes to waste. If you're in a deficit the rest of the week, you'll be able to stay on track.